Four Ways Energy Travels is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on evidence that energy is transferred by sound, light, heat and electric current, aligned to Common Core standard 4-PS3-2. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 17 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Four Ways Energy Travels
4-PS3-2
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Sort each one into how the energy travelled.
1.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A switch starts a buzzer across the bench, Sunlight warms a dark cloth, A radiator warms the air across a room, Thunder shakes a door
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
2.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A solar cell turns a small fan, A battery lights a bulb along a wire, A spoon in hot water warms at the far end, A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
3.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A hot pan warms the handle, A loudspeaker rattles a window, A cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit, A torch lights a card across the room
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
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Answer key — Four Ways Energy Travels
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A radiator warms the air across a room — By heat 2. A switch starts a buzzer across the bench — By electric current 3. Sunlight warms a dark cloth — By light 4. Thunder shakes a door — By sound
2.1. A battery lights a bulb along a wire — By electric current 2. A solar cell turns a small fan — By light 3. A spoon in hot water warms at the far end — By heat 4. A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz — By sound
3.1. A cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit — By electric current 2. A hot pan warms the handle — By heat 3. A loudspeaker rattles a window — By sound 4. A torch lights a card across the room — By light
More practice for 4-PS3-2
Show that energy travels by sound, light, heat and electric current.
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